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By *iamondsmiles. OP Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Tort-us

Tort-toise

Obviously all the posh people say the later

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

* latter, darling

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"* latter, darling

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*latter *daaaling!!

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By *irtyGirlWoman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

"* latter, darling

I'm with the gentleman above dahling!!

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By *its_n_piecesCouple
over a year ago

crwban

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Turtle

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By *iamondsmiles. OP Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

What what we all in agreement so far

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tortus init!!! When one is from sooooouuuufff London.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Del boy and Rodney... At least that's what mine are

.....sometimes it is.. The f'ing Tortoise though.. Depending on where they shit

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By *-angel-XWoman
over a year ago

hell

Taw- us

Proppa common ere

Mrs

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

Tortus, obvs.

The simple rule in English is words are seldom pronounced how they're spelt, so if there is ever a doubt, the way that looks wrong is right. (Pronounced 'rate')

I'd not only bet a pind, but I'd stake my hice on it

Mr ddc

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Tor-toise, tor-tus tautology

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By *iamondsmiles. OP Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Are us posh people still winning

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By *issHottieBottieWoman
over a year ago

Kent

"Tort-us

Tort-toise

Obviously all the posh people say the later

The latter. Not coz I'm posh but it's the way Ade Edmondson says it at the beginning of bottom live 2.

'have you seen my tort-oise?' and it always makes me laugh

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Like a long lived tortoise, experience has taught me it's pronounced Chelonian

Ours is a Turkish spur thighed, of approx 40 years

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By *ub_liminalTVTV/TS
over a year ago

Belfast

Tur-tle head or crowning ablution?..

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

[Removed by poster at 12/02/16 21:28:10]

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

"Are us posh people still winning

I still say that is a sophism...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As its spelt. Tort-oise.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tortus

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By *iamondsmiles. OP Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

"Tort-us

Tort-toise

Obviously all the posh people say the later

The latter. Not coz I'm posh but it's the way Ade Edmondson says it at the beginning of bottom live 2.

'have you seen my tort-oise?' and it always makes me laugh "
well there you go then if are Edmondson says it it must be posh

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

People who think they are being posh say "tor-toise"

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

"People who think they are being posh say "tor-toise"

How To Get On In Society - by John Betjeman?

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By *enard ArgenteMan
over a year ago

London and France

"Tort-us

Tort-toise

Obviously all the posh people say the later

No it's "Tortus"...

Which is how " posh" ( or educated) people say it.....

Only people who aren't posh,( or aren't educated) but try to pretend they are , say "tort-toise" .....

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By *iamondsmiles. OP Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

"Tort-us

Tort-toise

Obviously all the posh people say the later

No it's "Tortus"...

Which is how " posh" ( or educated) people say it.....

Only people who aren't posh,( or aren't educated) but try to pretend they are , say "tort-toise" ....."
and all this posh person has to say to that is bollocks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Me, I ain't posh. I'll just say it how the bloody hell I want. Lol. So, tortus it is!! As I said earlier. South London girlie!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"People who think they are being posh say "tor-toise"

How To Get On In Society - by John Betjeman?

Yeah....I'm fucked

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk

Tort-us

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Toise.

At leest I fink so

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By *enard ArgenteMan
over a year ago

London and France

So what about

Porpoise?

" porpus"

" por- poise"?

( it's " porpus", by the way )

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By *artytwoCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

Frank Skinner reckons that eating oysters is like sucking snot off a tor-tuss.

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

"People who think they are being posh say "tor-toise"

How To Get On In Society - by John Betjeman?

Yeah....I'm fucked

Us too, we even have fish-knives

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By *ohnaronMan
over a year ago

london

"Tort-us

Tort-toise

Obviously all the posh people say the later

Not at all. We are posh and that's not what the taught us.

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

Torrtuss. And you have to properly 'orr' on the first syllable.

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By *iamondsmiles. OP Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

"Torrtuss. And you have to properly 'orr' on the first syllable."
but youd end up walking round with a trout pout if you was saying like that

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

"Torrtuss. And you have to properly 'orr' on the first syllable.but youd end up walking round with a trout pout if you was saying like that

We have magic or and ar sounds in this neck of the woods. Don't need a weird mouth shape to do them, I promise!

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By *iamondsmiles. OP Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

"Torrtuss. And you have to properly 'orr' on the first syllable.but youd end up walking round with a trout pout if you was saying like that

We have magic or and ar sounds in this neck of the woods. Don't need a weird mouth shape to do them, I promise!"
I just tried to say it like that and my lips stuck out ten inches from my face

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm a posh Geordie if there's such a thing And it's tort-is in the country

Porp-is too

But then one does waaaak the durg !!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

toise

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm posh and I say the first one. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE ANYMORE!

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By *iamondsmiles. OP Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

"I'm a posh Geordie if there's such a thing And it's tort-is in the country

Porp-is too

But then one does waaaak the durg !! "
what the fuck is a tort-is that wasn't even an option

stop!making it complicated

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jaguar or 'jaguwaaar'?

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By *irtyGirlWoman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

I'm not sure it has much to do with being posh or not... it's just how I was taught to say it.

Tortoise.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Torrtuss. And you have to properly 'orr' on the first syllable.but youd end up walking round with a trout pout if you was saying like that

We have magic or and ar sounds in this neck of the woods. Don't need a weird mouth shape to do them, I promise!"

Those or and ar sounds are very difficult for a native Essex girl....it outs me as a not true Wiltshire girl Everytime!!

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By *iamondsmiles. OP Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

"I'm not sure it has much to do with being posh or not... it's just how I was taught to say it.

Tortoise.

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stop!sitting on the fence its cause your posh although I'm not sure with a dodgy Scottish accent

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm a posh Geordie if there's such a thing And it's tort-is in the country

Porp-is too

But then one does waaaak the durg !! what the fuck is a tort-is that wasn't even an option

stop!making it complicated

I like to throw something into the mix oops

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